Monthly Archives: October 2018

Neil Gaiman’s perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book, has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he’s the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians’ time as well as their ghostly teachings—such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy ...

‘Salem’s Lot – Stephen King

October 31, 2018

Horror

Stephen King’s second novel, the classic vampire bestseller ’SALEM’S LOT, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King’s archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King’s fictional darkness and evil to vivid life. When Stephen King’s classic thriller’SALEM’S LOT hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still ...

Every Breath – Nicholas Sparks

October 30, 2018

Romance

Get swept up in an epic romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook, a heartbreaking love story spanning decades and continents–from North Carolina to Zimbabwe. Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she’s been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family’s cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult ...

What Doesn’t Kill You: An Urban Fantasy for Magic Fans (Twisted Book 1) – Jo Ho

October 30, 2018

Young Adult

“I just wanted to be normal, but the day college started a supernatural world opened up. Now I don’t know who to trust… or even if I’ll survive the night.” A new urban fantasy series from the award-winning screenwriter of ground-breaking BBC TV series Spirit Warriors. When Marley moves into her dorm at Blackville University, she has classes to sign up for, parties to attend, and an over-protective father to avoid, who, as luck would have it, has just been hired at BU as its ...

Dare to Lead – Brené Brown

October 29, 2018

Business

Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we ...

My Passionate Love – Melissa Limoges

October 29, 2018

Romance

Get Book Three in the sweeping Highland Loves series! Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited! As the final member of her family to stumble into wedded bliss, Mairi MacGregor struggles with the weight of securing a suitable match more than ever. Fearful of becoming a burden to her kin or worse, ending up utterly alone, she begrudgingly accepts an offer of marriage from a longtime family friend and ally. However, as her upcoming nuptials draw closer, her thoughts stray to another—one she should’ve long forgotten. ...

Presidents of War – Michael Beschloss

October 28, 2018

History

From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America’s wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deaths. From James Madison and ...

Whiskey in a Teacup – Reese Witherspoon

October 27, 2018

Biography

Academy Award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women “whiskey in a teacup.” We may be delicate and ornamental on the outside, she said, but inside we’re strong and fiery. Reese’s southern heritage informs her whole life, and she loves sharing the joys of southern living with practically everyone ...

Forging of a Knight, Darksiege Triumphant – Hugo V. Negron

October 27, 2018

Fantasy

A betrayal from the School leads Darksiege, last of Those That Stand in Shadow, with the means to achieve ultimate power at last. A mighty artifact, divided and cast into different realms, will spell doom if found. Qualtan, Glaive, Cassandra, and Bartholomew will travel to places dark and terrible, including present-day Earth, to prevent Darksiege from gaining the victory he craves, but all is not as it seems. Are Darksiege and his opponents in a true quest, or have they been deceived into playing a ...

What If It’s Us – Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

October 26, 2018

Young Adult

Critically acclaimed and bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera combine their talents in this smart, funny, heartfelt collaboration about two very different boys who can’t decide if the universe is pushing them together—or pulling them apart. ARTHUR is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. BEN thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn’t be on his ...

Let Dead Dogs Lie – Anita Rodgers

October 26, 2018

Thriller

Lottie Stark, Chief of Police of small town Regal Reef, California, has a problem. A serial killer she caught when an FBI agent, is murdering young women again—but in her town. Donald Brown Stoker’s victims were blonde and blue, young and attractive. Just like her current victims. And the MO is eerily similar to Stoker’s—the strangled girls are left naked on the highway, wearing only a dog collar. But Stoker has been dead for three years, so it can’t be him. Can it? Unhappy with ...

Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami

October 25, 2018

Historical

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the ...

The Genician – T. L. Curtis

October 25, 2018

Science Fiction

While attempting to find a cure for his younger sister’s illness, Kamal Burman develops a method for quickly producing mature human clones. When the presidential hopeful and criminal queenpin who are funding his research start upping their demands on his time and energy, he hopes to find a way out of both of their clutches without the loose ends between the three of them strangling him. But it isn’t long before he discovers that digging deeper into those backing him financially could lead to catastrophe—and ...

The Witch Elm – Tana French

October 24, 2018

Mystery

“Tana French’s best and most intricately nuanced novel yet. . . Get ready for the whiplash brought on by its final twists and turns.” –The New York Times A brilliant new work of suspense from “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years.” (Washington Post) From the writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and has been called “incandescent” by Stephen King, “absolutely mesmerizing” by Gillian Flynn, and “unputdownable” (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a ...